6:51 pm, 12.Apr.08 · No Comments

I’ve never been a big fan of science-fiction or fantasy. I seem to have a problem with planets and aliens and unicorns. However, in the hands of Jeanette Winterson, one of my favorite authors, I can get on the alternate reality train.
In The Stone Gods Winterson offers up a tale of a post-apocalyptic world [...]

11:51 am, 04.Jun.05 · 4 Comments

kelly has asked me to take part in a fun little book meme. fun!
how many books do you own?
gee, by my best guess right now i have about 400 on the bookshelves. you can look at old pictures of my shelves from 2 years ago. plus theres the 100+ Sweet Valley High Books packed away [...]

9:58 am, 12.May.05 · 5 Comments

last night at book club george (a woman… all the people in bookclub are women) kept putting her hand up and saying “get behind me satan” to me. first it was because i brought cookies. then because i didn’t watch TV (FFJ’s admission, not mine, i’ve learned my lesson). we were laughing so hard at [...]

12:47 pm, 10.Jan.05 · 2 Comments

now that we’re nearly two weeks into 2005, i’ve finally decided to go public with my reading plan. yeah, i’m that nerdy that i have a reading plan for the year. i had one last year too. RP2004 was to alternate between novels and a collection of short stories. i needed to expose myself to [...]

10:35 am, 06.Jan.05 · Comments Off

i’m working from home today. generally this means sitting around in pajama-like clothing with unbrushed hair eating pancakes. today, this is not the case at all. today i had to get dressed and brush my hair. i did however, just eat some delicious peanut butter pancakes so the day isn’t totally wasted. but i had [...]

1:17 pm, 08.Sep.02 · Comments Off

I’ve been walking around the livingroom all morning. Hopping from one bookcase to another, gently caressing the spines of all my books trying to decide which eight would be represent me and my life.
See Sister #2 has just gone back to college and for the first session of her ‘The Reflective Woman’ class she had [...]

11:00 pm, 17.Feb.02 · 3 Comments

recently, i answered the question about the most romantic thing ever or some such nonesense. my answer was lame. but thanks to the darling will bringing up jeanette winterson i remember one romantic thing that happened to me.
his name was john and he had long orangeybrown hair. we lay topless on my futon. my [...]

4:10 pm, 23.Oct.00 · 1 Comment

wahoo!!! the new jeanette winterson book is on it’s way to my place of employment. i am so excited i could pee my pants. i love, love, love ms. winterson. of course, i cannot read it until i finish up infinite jest and neal pollacks anthology. but i am still excited as all get out. [...]

7:36 am, 15.Sep.00 · Comments Off

gah! i’ve been outed. i am nothing but a poser. while i do own all the books in the library photo. i have yet to read them all. ok? i haven’t finished infinite jest yet. i am a sham, a fraud. i’ve read all the other ones. honest. ask me anything about them. “written on [...]